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Word entry · 5 letters

thunk

Best crossword clue

"A dull hollow sound"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /θʌŋk/Part of speech nounSorted hkntuStarts with TEnds with K1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a dull hollow sound

Word origin

Said by the inventors to be from the irregular jocular past tense of think (see Etymology 1), being coined when they realised that the type of an argument in ALGOL 60 could be predetermined at compile time (with a little compile-time “thought”).

Used in a sentence

  • Who would have thunk those guys would have a problem with a little lie?
  • A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk that the skunk stunk.
  • I could think of things I never thunk before ...

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